The Law Office of Edmund A. Greene has hands-on experience involving the following legal matters:
Business Law
Attorney Greene is an entrepreneur having incorporated and sold a Massachusetts S-Corporation. His company specialized in risk management, liability, compliance and contract negotiations for businesses, developers, property owners, and financial institutions from "Main Street to Wall Street" nationwide. Attorney Greene is knowledgeable about the various types of business entities, including liability protection, stock options, succession planning for estate planning, compliance and tax implications involved with business operations and divestitures.
Estate Planning
Estate planning can appear to be complex and even disconcerting, raising more questions than there are answers. Others believe that an off-the-self Will is sufficient to meet their estate planning needs. Attorney Greene is there to eliminate your concerns, answer your questions and draft an estate that maximizes your goals and objectives and assist in eliminating costly Probate proceedings (which a Will requires by law).
Essential Estate Planning: Wills, Trusts, Power of Attorney, Health Care Proxy, Living Will, Homestead
Complex Estate Planning: Complex Trusts, Irrevocable Insurance Trusts, Business Plan Succession, QTIP
Banking & Securitization Law
Attorney Greene legal opinion has been sought on numerous complex multi-million dollar financings for acquisitions, mergers or for refinancing. Mr. Greene was an expert witness on behalf of a Fortune 5 financial institution involving a distressed and environmentally contaminated real estate portfolio in a commercial securitization. Attorney Greene has represented Fortune 100 financial institutions involving loan closings, compliance with securities' prospectuses as well as borrowers' legal rights relating to mortgage agreements and workouts. Mr. Greene previously chaired panel discussions with rating agency personnel and has published articles on "best practices for commercial lending."
Real Estate: Financings, Closings & Title Searches
Attorney Greene has negotiated literally thousands of complex real estate transactions nationwide involving financings from various lending sources, various loan products (1st lien, mezzanine, construction loans), and various borrower types: REITs, TICs, Single-Purpose Entities. Whether a complex commercial real estate transaction or a single-family home, Attorney Greene will address your complete real estate needs.
Environmental Law
Attorney Greene has expertise in complex environmental due diligence, compliance and risk mitigation and has published numerous articles on various environmental topics from toxic mold to Brownfield financings. For fourteen years, Attorney Greene identified environmental liability and promoted risk mitigation and negotiated risk transfer with insurance products or through indemnification agreements. Today, Attorney Greene works closely on eco-compliance for high tech companies concerning electrical product and compliance with European Union directives including RoHS, Reach and WEE.
Family Law
Attorney Greene handles domestic relations with empathy as divorce is a tremendously stressful and potentially destructive process. Court savvy and knowledgeable in the latest child support guidelines and alternatives to court proceedings including mediation, Attorney Greene will give you guidance on what to expect during the divorce proceedings.
Expertise Includes: Guardian Ad Litem, Parenting Coordinator, Child Support, Parenting Plans
Risk Management/Insurance & Compliance
Attorney Greene has fourteen years of experience in risk management, identification and risk transfer alternatives for personal needs to complex corporate needs. Whether you need a homeowner's policy, an Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust or assistance with securities compliance in a commercial mortgaged backed security, Attorney Greene can assist your needs. In 2007, Attorney Greene initiated and presented his risk management (Managing General Agency) idea for expediting commercial loan closings to senior Wall Street insurance executives at Renaissance Reinsurance headquarters, Hamilton Bermuda. Attorney Greene's legal advice has been sought on numerous risk management and risk transfer alternative options from individuals (small business/estate planning) to Fortune 10 companies.
Attorney Greene has consulted businesses compliance matters involving: insurance licensure, environmental regulations, banking, and securities prospectuses.